Sister Lorielle Record has served an honorable full-time mission for 18 months for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
in the Oklahoma Oklahoma City Mission (OOCM).

Monday, May 7, 2012

Questions: 7 May 2012

Eric: How is the weather, and do you
like it?

The weather here the past few days has
been HOT AND HUMID. It feels like summer time in Utah, just add
humidity. I'm not looking forward to summer. Last summer the heat
was pretty intense. It was 115-120 degrees outside for 3 weeks
straight. I guess July and August here are pretty brutal. haha!
People keep telling me that even at night it doesn't cool off. I will
be drinking quite a lot of water! :D

Dad: What is Sister Buckley's first
name and where is she from?

Taryn from Kaysville, UT

Dad: Did you here any tornado sirens
during the storms?

A few weeks ago the sirens went off at
2am. Every Saturday the siren go off at noon as a test, so I hear the
siren once a week.

Oh where should I start! Sister Buckley
is so much fun to be around and always makes me laugh. She is a very
powerful teacher. She loves to learn new things. She calls herself a
"scripture nerd" she loves the scriptures. She loves to
talk about the gospel. Our companion studies are always great! :D

Dad: I posted the 50 questions to
your blog and challenged everyone to read the Book of Mormon and find
the answers.

AWESOME!!!! I love it! Thanks so much
dad! Will you also find on YouTube the song Come See the Light by
Freddie Ashby and post the link. Sister Buckley showed this song to
me and I LOVE it! It is beautiful!

Dad: Will you please share one of
your own defining moments?

I feel like have had quite a few
defining moments in my life. The biggest one is kind of personal, so
I will share another defining moment for me in my life. I would have
to say my decision to move out and go to Snow College was a defining
moment. I had to choose for myself if I wanted to keep doing the
things I had been taught all my life. I had to choose for myself if I
wanted to strengthen and develop my own testimony of the Gospel.

Nobody was around to tell me to go to
church, to read my scriptures, etc. When I chose to do all those
things because I wanted to and because I loved the Lord. I started to
CHOOSE to become the woman God needs me to be. I'm still on that
path, and will be my whole life. There isn't going to be an end to
learning and growth. Life would be horrible if we weren't growing and
learning all the time. I think thats why I love a mission. It is
helping me learn so much about myself, about family, about my Savior,
about Heavenly Father, about life. Things I wouldn't have learned by
staying home. I love y'all so much! Thank for all your support and
love! I love you!

2 comments:

Just wanted to report and let you know that my talk about charity went well, and I did use some of Sister Record's April 23 letter in it, to show how that once we've experienced the love of our Savior in our own lives, through faith and repentance, then sharing the gospel becomes a natural thing to do. Also, more than 70 years ago my dad served a mission in the Central States Mission, and he spent many months in Oklahoma. In his letters home to his mother, he, too, talked about the heat and humidity; and he also mentioned the tornadoes that were nearby but didn't affect him personally. Some things never change, do they.